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I would say Scholarship Idol was a rousing success last year, wouldn’t you?  For those unfamiliar, Scholarship Idol was a video contest we ran last summer

Pardon me, passionate purveyers of points, but I have put forth a new points-earning opportunity.

Was that lame?  Yeah, I thought so too.  It won’t happen again..     Anyyyway, I’m just reaching out to encourage all of you to check out your fellow scholarship points community brethren published on the student platinum blog.  We have a team of Scholarshippoints users blogging about their experiences with the Save to Win $500 ING Challenge.  They come in all shapes and sizes–from Matt, the 18 year old Freshman at Brown–to Bloodberry, the 31 year old college student at SUNY.  Check out the diaries page here

They’re all offering various tips and strategies towards meeting that mark of saving $500.  And since they’ve all signed up for free ING Savings Accounts, they’re entered into winning 1 of 2 $500 cash prizes courtesy of Scholarshippoints.com.  So my call is for you all to support their hard work!  You’ll get 10 easy points for this blog, but the real gold (beyond the fantastic personal savings information) lies  HERE at the student platinum blog.

Browse the member diaries and see if you can find some big money codes (leave some comments too, I’m sure your fellow members will appreciate the support for their hard work).

Cheers and happy saving,
Captain J

Code: SHOUTOUTT

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Based on all your comments and forum posts, the suspense must have been killing you.  But the wait is over!  Myself, Point Guard and the rest of the Scholarshippoints team would like to lend a huge congratulations to Victoria, a Biology and Anthropology major at George Washington University (aka a smartypants).

Picking the $10K scholarship winner is always an exciting day around the Scholarshippoints office and it’s sure rewarding when our $10K winner bursts into happy ‘Are you kidding me’ tears (sorry Victoria, if anyone told you we weren’t going to tell anyone, they lied).  We wish Victoria the very best going forward and hope we were able to lend a hand in her pursuits.

BUT SHE ALMOST MISSED OUT!  We’ve had folks win free scholarships before and wound up forfeiting their winnings because they didn’t respond to our calls and e-mails on time.  So please please please make sure your contact information on your profile is up to date, and be sure to add “members@scholarshippoints.com” to your safe or white list on your e-mail accounts so we don’t get logged away in the spam folder.  Save the junk folder for junk, not scholarships!

So with October’s $10k Scholarship officially in the books, what’s left for ScholarshipPoints members you ask?  Well, besides our usual monthly scholarships and ZoomPanel Monthly Scholarship, we have

• The ING $500 Savings Challenge! We Pay You to Save Your Money
  

This one couldn’t come at a better time.  Holiday shopping usually pops up out of nowhere and annihilates my monthly budget, but this year, I’m keeping a savings diary with some other scholarshippoints members.  We’ll all be providing tips for saving your money on a regular basis (and some points codes may find their way in the diaries here and there..)

I signed up for a free ING Direct Savings Account here and started charting my savings towards $500.  You can sign up with as little as a dollar and ScholarshipPoints members…

Just for signing up for a savings account, you are automatically entered to win one of 2 $500 cash prizes at the end of the year!

Pretty cool?  Well, I thought so at least.  Here’s your points!

IAMSAVEDD

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Quincy, MA, November 4, 2008 – When the economy declines, saving money is more challenging and also far more important. For students struggling to pay for college and everyday expenses, this predicament is especially relevant. To help students learn to save, www.ScholarshipPoints.comhas issued a challenge to encourage students to begin saving money. As motivation ScholarshipPoints is offering to pay students to take their challenge.

ScholarshipPoints is challenging students to save $500 by the end of the year.  Each student who enters the challenge will be eligible to win one of two $500 cash prizes to be deposited into the students’ savings account.

“With student loans becoming more scarce ScholarshipPoints has experienced rapid member growth this year adding over 175,000 new student members to our free scholarship website” says program director Mark Marquis. “We believe saving money is something every student can learn to do and we launched this program to encourage them to start”.

Any high school or college student in the US is eligible to enter at www.scholarshippoints.com/savings. ScholarshipPoints is a fast growing free community of students who participate in online activities to earn points. Their points are used as entries into various scholarships the website gives away to its members.

In 2008 ScholarshipPoints will give students more than $50,000 in free scholarship money. In addition to giving away more scholarship money, ScholarshipPoints will help students in other ways such as the College Savings Challenge in 2009.

Working in conjunction with its sister site www.StudentPlatinum.com, a student credit education and credit card comparison site, ScholarshipPoints is adding more educational challenges to their schedule. By expanding the educational resources ScholarshipPoints hopes to teach students to begin helping themselves by making smarter financial decisions.

About ScholarshipPoints

www.ScholarshipPoints.com is an Edvisors company.  Edvisors (www.Edvisors.com) is a leader in college marketing and financial services. The company provides a richer, more fulfilling education experience to students, educators and parents worldwide.

Contact:

Mark Marquis, Director

mmarquis@edvisors.com

(617) 249-1224

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Hey Gang. Point Guard here. We’ve got all our money pooled together to pony up the $10,000 college scholarship prize. We also held the drawing and we’re trying to contact the winner.

Good news for you potentially. Her cell number doesn’t seem to be working and she hasn’t responded to our emails. She has 7 days to get back to us or we award the scholarship to the runner up.

To make it fun we’re going to record the call and video Lee, our friend who is going to answer the phone. I’m using a Flip Cam just like the ones we gave out to the Video Idol finalists.

Hey by the way, do you all want us to do another Video Idol contest? If so we can start it in December and give you several months to work on it. Maybe Adrian can give us all some video tips.

OK that’s it. Check back soon for the $10,000 scholarship winner. Also feel free to send me a shirt. I had to sell mine to come up with the $10,000.

PG

PS: For those who wanted a hint, the winner is female and goes to George Washington University. We have not heard back yet however. One day gone, 6 more to go.

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As it turns out, this horror story is far more common than one would think.  I’m serious.  Google the title of this article and be amazed at how many peoples’ moms are on Facebook.  Mine is.  Yours might be too..  *Cue twilight zone music*

It’s not all bad that regular Moms and Dads and Aunts and Uncles are on Facebook.  I think my Mom has 4 ‘friends’ total, and I’m reluctantly one of them.  But get used to it.  The 30+ age range is the fastest growing demographic on the 100 plus million user social network we all know and love.  And you know what?  Some of these people are or are soon to become your bosses!  So don’t turn out like this guy.  Facebook, like any of the hundreds of online networking tools can be used to your advantage.

Earning points to win scholarships is a great way to facilitate the financial pressures of a college education.  But that’s not even half the battle.  Learn how to manage your finances early.  It’s also immeasurably important to network yourself, find quality internships and stay ahead of the curve.  Take some online classes during a school break to supplement your coursework.

I know you all came here for points…but it might not be so easy this time (it’s still pretty easy). Join the scholarshippoints.com Facebook group and become a fan of our website profile (there’s goodies hiding in both of them–check the descriptions and discussion boards).

And I swear my Mom won’t Facebook you.

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